Web-Based Microsoft Office is Now Live on SkyDrive

image The popular Microsoft Office Suite Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote..) has its sibling Web Apps on SkyDrive. The suite went online and  are now available to everyone in the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland.

We’ll have more to share next week when Office 2010 is released to consumers, including how

if you live in the US, UK, Canada, or Ireland, you can head over to Office.live.com today to start viewing and editing Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote documents right in your web browser – and share them with your friends.

You don’t have to own a copy of Office 2010 to enjoy the services, but Microsoft suggests: “Office 2010 + SkyDrive + Office Web Apps give you the best productivity experience across the PC, phone, and browser.”

You can create, upload, edit and share your new or existing docs right from your browser and the developer team did an  excellent job to make you the look and feel as close as the offline  experience as possible.

Picture of the Office page on SkyDrive

In addition, you can work with your co-workers, classmates in real time collaboration on any document and never be locked out of a document when someone else is working on it.

The Web apps work on your smartphone too. Browse to Office.live.com  on your phone and you’ll be able to view Word and PowerPoint documents without any extra software (on most smartphones).

[Via Windows Team Blog]

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  • Thanks HPee!
    Now I have a reason to revisit my abandoned Skydrive.

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